Vandals are hampering preservation efforts at St. Anne Wetlands again, but this time they're targeting educational signs and kiosks and befouling the area with trash.
While incidents of damage from ATV riding at the Ohio River wetland area have decreased since reported earlier this spring, vandals have carved graffiti onto the educational signs and kiosks erected this spring and littered the area with trash, said Rebecca Kelley, Ph.D., director of environmental sciences at Northern Kentucky University.
NKU is helping maintain the educational trails on the property along with the Campbell County Conservancy. The Congregation of Divine Providence, which operates nearby St. Anne Convent, granted management of the property to the Conservancy in 2008.
The most recent damage was discovered July 15 when Kelley led a group of middle school students enrolled in a week-long summer science camp on a tour of the educational trail through the about 100-acre wetland along the Ohio River near St. Anne Convent on the border of Melbourne and Silver Grove.
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